Cassandra MacDowell
Code Name: Little Witch
Public Information
You are the Service Bureau Chief for Ireland. Since you began heading the organization, your section has been the most successful at predicting terrorist activity and at tracking down suspects to bombings. You have periodically been asked to assist other Sections in particularly difficult murder investigations. You have a 98% lifetime conviction rate - unparalleled in Service history.
Private Information
When you were a child, your mother, Lilith, introduced you to the Old Religion, Celtic mysticism and Druid religious practice. You soon found out that you have a Gift for Magick - not the Stage Magician's sleight of hand but the actual ability to control the flow of the Goddess's power through your body and into objects and for portents. You're very good at going into a trance and divining the nature of a thing or a place.
When you were younger - years ago but they seem like centuries now - you had every intention of following your mother's footsteps and becoming a High Priestess of the Goddess Cult. However, things changed for you when during a Sabbat ceremony your mother was gunned down by a young Asian boy not much older than yourself. The authorities were unable to help locate the killer despite his obvious characteristics - an Asian male in Ireland should be easy to find particularly one who has a very large diamond shaped birthmark surrounding his left eye.
Through your own investigations, you discovered that the boy was a member of a Triad/Yakuza organization. At that moment you endeavored to join the Service and learn as much as you could about underworld activity so that you would one day be able to find your mother's killer and lay her soul to rest.
You use your supernatural powers to assist you in your investigations. You also have a tendency to dress rather provocatively as this tends to put people off guard - enabling you to take charge of the conversation and get what you want.
Since you abhor violence, you have found that a sweet smile here or a tender word there loosens things up more peacefully and much more quietly than a bullet ever could.
Goals
Since the agenda for this meeting is to determine who will be the next World Coordinator for the Service, you must try as hard as you can to make certain you will get that position. Being World Chief would make finding your mother's killer so much easier - the resources you could then bring to bear would be almost inexhaustible. If you cannot muster the support for the position, your secondary plan should be to make certain that whoever does end up with the job is someone you can manipulate.
Copyright 1996 (1998), Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H.
